Cycling, Liverpool FC, Python, AI/ML, Emacs, GNU/Linux, Postgres, DevOps, Pink Floyd -- not necessarily in that order.
In Linux, V4L (Video4Linux) dictates how a video-capture device (as character node) is created in the device tmpfs filesystem (devtmpfs specifically, mounted on /dev). The webcam devices are usually created as /dev/video<index> e.g. /dev/video0. Different udev rules are then used to give these devices locations in /dev based on their ID (in /dev/v4l/by-id/), bus path (in /dev/v4l/by-path/) and so on.
When working with torchaudio for audio-oriented neural network implementations, one of the very first things we do is to get the metadata of the audio input using torchaudio.info.
Panel is the perfect place in Linux Mint to put the launchers for programs/commands that are used most often. To create a launcher we need a .desktop file that describes some attributes of the program. Most installed GUI programs come with their launchers (.desktop files), but when we have a custom command/program of our own that we want to create the launcher for, the only thing we need to do is create a .desktop file.
tensorboard is a quite popular among deep learning practitioners for experiment tracking. I also use it often, but what was bothering me for a while was to start the server (using tensorboard command) on one emacs buffer every time I want to track something. It gets tedious very quickly considering restarts as well. So, I've written a tiny elisp recipe to start/restart tensorboard directly from the (Python) file buffer (python-mode) in emacs.
Fingerprint authentication has always been flaky for Dell XPS series when running any GNU/Linux distro. I tried a bunch of things to enable the fingerprint authentication, and after a lot of trial-and-error I've succeeded in activating fingerprint based authentication on my Dell XPS 13 9310 running Linux Mint 21 (vanessa).